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  • February 20, 2024

    Mohawk Mothers halt warehouse excavation

    Work has been temporarily paused at a Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) warehouse facility in Montreal, after the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers)

  • February 20, 2024

    Supreme court affirms child welfare law

    Indigenous families, community members, and advocacy groups convened at a downtown Ottawa hotel last Friday, singing, dancing, drumming, and cheering.

  • November 7, 2023

    First Nations police demand fair funding

    The Kahnawake Peacekeepers run a 24-hour operation, so it might seem strange to find the lights off at the station.

  • November 2, 2023

    Historic child welfare settlement approved

    Kiona Akohseràke Deer was moved between different group homes and foster care units at least 20 times before she even turned 18.

  • February 23, 2023

    Community grieves overdose victim

    Community members grieve the loss of 23-year-old Kanehsata’kehró:non Brayden Jay Shakohawitha Etienne to overdose after a years-long battle with a drug addiction.
  • December 30, 2022

    The year that was in Kahnawake

    The CAQ won again, Bill 96 passed, and two years into the pandemic we still said the word COVID more often than we ate breakfast.

  • October 31, 2022

    Historic child welfare settlement rejected

    Courtesy First Nations Child and Family Caring Society The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) has put the brakes on a landmark $20-billion settlement agreement to compensate Indigenous victims of the child welfare system, ruling it does not pass muster with the requirements the tribunal laid out.

  • October 20, 2022

    $1 million towards new building

    Photo by Reina Ephrahim At the forefront of the Playground Poker Club and The Rail stands a grey rectangular building, once addressed to Steelhawk Homes.

  • June 30, 2022

    Bill 15 targets our youth

    In late April, the Quebec National Assembly (QNA) quietly passed Bill 15, a reform to the Quebec Youth Protection Act that reinforces provincial jurisdiction over Indigenous child welfare, making it the only province in Canada to continue to assert legal jurisdiction over Indigenous children.

  • March 15, 2022

    Gas prices putting pressure on families

    Courtesy Jacob Cree Kanehsata’kehró:non Karonhienhawe Nicholas got through school as a single mother relying on social assistance, but when she found a good job working for the Correctional Service of Canada as an Indigenous liaison officer, she thought her days of having to say “no” to her children were over.